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I am an experienced leader and entrepreneur with over 20 years of simulation training expertise in medical practice and medical fundraising arenas. I have founded and successfully sold a medical secret shopping firm and am an accomplished screenwriter with five spec scripts currently in circulation. I leverage high emotional intelligence and communicate candidly to build trust and strong relationships with clients and colleagues. I excel in both writing and speaking and am known as a calculated risk-taker with unwavering commitment to responsibility and integrity. I have worked extensively creating simulation training for medical professionals including board members and physicians and have co-founded a healthcare-focused mystery shopping firm. I am passionate about improving business outcomes through innovative training techniques, storytelling, and live performance. My experience ranges from standardized patient training to authoring TV pilots and performing one-man virtual shows, illustrating my versatile creative and consulting capabilities.…I am an experienced leader and entrepreneur with over 20 years of simulation training expertise in medical practice and medical fundraising arenas. I have founded and successfully sold a medical secret shopping firm and am an accomplished screenwriter with five spec scripts currently in circulation. I leverage high emotional intelligence and communicate candidly to build trust and strong relationships with clients and colleagues. I excel in both writing and speaking and am known as a calculated risk-taker with unwavering commitment to responsibility and integrity. I have worked extensively creating simulation training for medical professionals including board members and physicians and have co-founded a healthcare-focused mystery shopping firm. I am passionate about improving business outcomes through innovative training techniques, storytelling, and live performance. My experience ranges from standardized patient training to authoring TV pilots and performing one-man virtual shows, illustrating my versatile creative and consulting capabilities.

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I am an experienced leader and entrepreneur with over 20 years of simulation training expertise in medical practice and medical fundraising arenas. I have founded and successfully sold a medical secret shopping firm and am an accomplished screenwriter with five spec scripts currently in circulation. I leverage high emotional intelligence and communicate candidly to build trust and strong relationships with clients and colleagues. I excel in both writing and speaking and am known as a calculated risk-taker with unwavering commitment to responsibility and integrity. I have worked extensively creating simulation training for medical professionals including board members and physicians and have co-founded a healthcare-focused mystery shopping firm. I am passionate about improving business outcomes through innovative training techniques, storytelling, and live performance. My experience ranges from standardized patient training to authoring TV pilots and performing one-man virtual shows, illustrating my versatile creative and consulting capabilities.…I am an experienced leader and entrepreneur with over 20 years of simulation training expertise in medical practice and medical fundraising arenas. I have founded and successfully sold a medical secret shopping firm and am an accomplished screenwriter with five spec scripts currently in circulation. I leverage high emotional intelligence and communicate candidly to build trust and strong relationships with clients and colleagues. I excel in both writing and speaking and am known as a calculated risk-taker with unwavering commitment to responsibility and integrity. I have worked extensively creating simulation training for medical professionals including board members and physicians and have co-founded a healthcare-focused mystery shopping firm. I am passionate about improving business outcomes through innovative training techniques, storytelling, and live performance. My experience ranges from standardized patient training to authoring TV pilots and performing one-man virtual shows, illustrating my versatile creative and consulting capabilities.

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I am an experienced leader and entrepreneur with over 20 years of simulation training expertise in medical practice and medical fundraising arenas. I have founded and successfully sold a medical secret shopping firm and am an accomplished screenwriter with five spec scripts currently in circulation. I leverage high emotional intelligence and communicate candidly to build trust and strong relationships with clients and colleagues. I excel in both writing and speaking and am known as a calculated risk-taker with unwavering commitment to responsibility and integrity.

I have worked extensively creating simulation training for medical professionals including board members and physicians and have co-founded a healthcare-focused mystery shopping firm. I am passionate about improving business outcomes through innovative training techniques, storytelling, and live performance. My experience ranges from standardized patient training to authoring TV pilots and performing one-man virtual shows, illustrating my versatile creative and consulting capabilities.

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Work Experience

Screenwriter/Performer

May 1, 2021 - Present

Authored 5 spec screenplays and 2 TV pilots, including comedy spec script The Big Mahoff which was optioned. Created TV pilot for OUT of the BOX productions. Semi-finalist in Blue Cat Screenplay Contest (top 75 of 4,436 entries). Wrote and performed a one-man virtual show Riddled with Fault over five weeks.

President at IRB Consulting Services

December 31, 2022 - August 5, 2025

Designed and executed executive-level simulation training for board members and physicians for Gobel Group. Trainings focused on recognizing grateful speech from patients and leveraging it for fundraising. Created Prospect to Donor fundraising simulation training over extended sessions. Received highly positive participant feedback and 100% recognition accuracy of grateful language.

Co-Founder, Senior Consultant at Verify HealthCare

December 31, 2017 - August 5, 2025

Founded a medical mystery shopping firm providing the "voice of the customer" via in-person and telephone secret shopping. Developed online dashboards for client metrics focusing on interpersonal skills, compliance and customer service. Delivered data-driven recommendations leading to 8-18% caller satisfaction improvements. Detected and resolved data privacy issues via subjective data analysis.

Consulting Partner – Health Care at Verify International, Inc.

June 30, 2014 - August 5, 2025

Advised a major hospitality secret shopping firm on healthcare market expansion. Developed healthcare-related secret shopping products tied to interpersonal outcomes affecting facility reimbursement and sales.

President and Founder at Live Simulation Solutions

June 30, 2014 - August 5, 2025

Founded firm specializing in simulation training using standardized patients to improve client business outcomes. Contracted by Press-Ganey to develop hospital secret shopping product to assess process breaks and HCAHPS score impact. Designed simulations including Fetal Demise for chaplaincy and trainings for United Health Care on handling developmentally disabled patients.

Standardized Patient Trainer at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

December 31, 2008 - August 5, 2025

Managed, trained and remediated a team of 8-12 standardized patients performing high stakes assessments for medical students. Reviewed interaction recordings for quality assurance and coaching. Trained medical students by roleplaying various patient scenarios.

Stage Performer, Actor, Stand-Up and Sketch Comedy Performer

December 31, 2008 - August 5, 2025

Performed in New York and Philadelphia in various stage, stand-up, and sketch comedy roles.

Owner/Sole Proprietor at Dr. Vac and Sew

December 31, 2003 - August 5, 2025

Operated family business with three locations including ordering, advertising, customer service, sales and repairs.